Mysteries in Life

••Mysteries in Life - Song: Martina Bcbride - I Have Been Blessed

There are many mysteries in life that lead to many questions. I often ask myself:

Why did I have to go blind
Why do I have to have multiple sclerosis?
Why does my brother have to have multiple sclerosis
Why did my sister Janice have to die so young
Why did baby Seth have to die
Why did I get to know and love Seth only to lose him

Questions, questions, always questions and seemingly no answers. Maybe the answers are there, though, and only left for us to discover. Maybe I went blind so that I could truly see. Maybe I have multiple sclerosis to show me the frailties of the body so that I can learn to not base so much importance on physical appearance. Maybe my brother Tommy has multiple sclerosis to help me in fighting the battle. Maybe my sister Janice died just because her work on earth was through.
It's a much harder question to answer in the case of Seth. He was just a baby, only one year old. Why did he have to die Why did I have to lose him after just learning to love him The second question is easier to answer than the first. Maybe I was blessed to get to know him and to love him before God took him home. It could have been worse. I could have never known him at ALL. I never knew a happier and more lovable baby in my life. Maybe that's why God took him home so soon. Maybe he was such a special baby that God could only let him stay here for one year without wanting him back in heaven. Who knows, but I do know one thing. Now I have so many relatives watching over me in heaven.

my Mom, my sister Janice, and baby Seth

Baby Angels

My friend had a beautiful baby boy
Seth is what he was called
He came into my life for the first time
When he was just one year old

A happier baby I'd never seen
He stole my heart right away
With a smile so bright and contagious laugh
He brought happiness into my day

Yet tragedy struck one autumn night
As baby Seth lay sleeping in bed
Entangled in his blanket and unable to get free
Next morning, the baby was found dead

My friend and I wailed our grief
How could sweet Seth now be gone
We knew that there must be some mistake
And that someone would say we were wrong

But that never happened and the brutal truth
Seemed more than what we could bear
How could God take home a baby so small
It seemed to us both so unfair

But God spoke to me in a dream one night
And told me something that I never knew
Heaven is filled with all one can dream
And baby angels are needed there, too.

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